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R. C. GORMAN, NAVAJO PAINTER
This classic six-part series, which aired on PBS during the nations bicentennial, examines the careers of some of the most talented Native American artists of the Southwest as they were unfolding at that time.
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Charles Loloma was one of the first Native American jewelers to use gold instead of silver and diamonds and other precious gems in addition to turquoise, coral, and shell. His innovative designs, so sculptural in quality, were internationally acclaimed.
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Together with their father, Camilio Sunflower Tafoya, Medicine Flower and Lone Wolf are filmed digging and refining their clay and then molding it into pots, which they decorate and fire.
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The first to portray the Native American as real, not red, Fritz Scholder has been a major influence on an entire generation of Native American artists. This program films Scholder, an artist of Luiseno descent, as he takes his painting Television Indian.
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The abstract geometric paintings of Helen Hardin beautifully illustrate the artists struggle to depict aspects of her native heritage yet depart from the Santa Fe Dorothy Dunn model of her predecessors including her mother, the acclaimed Pablita Velarde.
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Sculptor Allan Houser won international recognition for his depiction of the stoic, powerful figures of his Chiricahua Apache and Navajo families in wood, stone, and metal. This program follows Houser also acclaimed for his murals and paintings...
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